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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north and northwest, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. It is a republic under a provisional government and comprises 14 governorates. Damascus is the capital and largest city. With a population of 26 million across an area of 185,180 square kilometres (71,500 sq mi), it is the 56th-most populous and 87th-largest country.
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The national flag of Syria, commonly known as the Syrian flag or the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic, is a rectangular tricolour featuring three stars. It consists of three equal horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, from top to bottom, with three red five-pointed stars centered in the white stripe, which has a length equal to 2.3 its width.
Design & symbolism
The flag of Syria is defined in Article 6 of the Constitutional Declaration of 2025. The Syrian flag will be as follows: The flag is rectangular in shape, the length of which is equal to two-thirds of its width. It includes three equal rectangles, green at the top, white in the middle, and black at the bottom. In the middle of the flag, within the white space, are three red stars. — Constitutional Declaration, Article 6
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